Vice Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice, KCB (5 May 1899 – 30 August 1979)[1] was a senior Royal Navy officer and aviator who served as Fifth Sea Lord from 1951 to 1954.

He was promoted to Navy commander on 31 December 1932, and to the RAF rank of squadron leader on 1 January 1933, and from 26 September was attached to the Directorate of Training at the Air Ministry.

[2] On 28 July 1937 he was appointed Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser HMS Shropshire in the Mediterranean Fleet, remaining there until receiving promotion to the rank of captain on 30 June 1939.

[1] Anstice spent the early part of the Second World War, from October 1939, serving at the Admiralty, and was appointed Deputy Director of the Naval Air Division in February 1941.

He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1950 New Year Honours and,[1] promoted to vice admiral on 15 September 1951, he served on the Board of Admiralty as Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air).